"I regretted the minute I pressed share": a qualitative study of regrets on Facebook

By Yang Wang, Gregory Norcie, Saranga Komanduri, Alessandro Acquisti, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Lorrie Faith Cranor. 2011

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “…may not include people who only read content without writing), or due to self-censorship (e.g., not sharing or deleting a post) as a result of factors such as online harassment, privacy concerns, or some sort of social repercussion (Wang et al., 2011; Das and Kramer, 2013; Matias et al., 2015).”
Privacy as part of the app decision-making process (2013, background): “As of May 2012, Android has had over 15 billion application downloads, and over 500,000 applications, with both these numbers continuing to grow at an increasing rate [19].”
"I Didn't Sign Up for This!": Informed Consent in Social Network Research (2015, unknown): “This may cause regret, and perceived leakage of social network data (Wang et al. 2011).”
Self-Censorship on Facebook (2013, background): “Users who experience episodes of “regret” for sharing content that is inappropriate for parts of their audience might resort to self-censorship to avoid repeating a similar episode (Wang et al. 2011).”
Tweets are forever: a large-scale quantitative analysis of deleted tweets (2013, background): “showed that Facebook users most commonly handle regrettable posts by deleting them [25].”
Privacy-CNH: A Framework to Detect Photo Privacy with Convolutional Neural Network using Hierarchical Features (2016, background): “Even worse, a recent survey by (Wang et al. 2011) found that 23 % of Facebook users regret posting on Facebook .”
Online Media Forums as Separate Social Lives: A Qualitative Study of Disclosure Within and Beyond Reddit (2015, background): “In-the-moment outbursts linger, and half-truths are exposed through misdirection to unintended viewers, leading to experiences of regret among users attempting to manage their personal disclosures (Wang et al., 2011).”
The influence of personality on Facebook usage, wall postings, and regret (2012, background): “While some research exists on the possible causes of why people make postings on Facebook they later regret (Wang et al., 2011), no research exists, however, documenting the degree to which individuals vary in their sense of concern or regret over such Facebook activity.”
Nudges for Privacy and Security (2017, background): “For example, Calo [2010] discussed privacy harms that can arise out of individuals’ lack of awareness regarding how their data is collected or used; Wang et al. [2011] studied user regrets caused by unintended disclosures on Facebook; Sleeper et al. [2013] studied regrets related to Twitter posts;…”
Loose tweets: an analysis of privacy leaks on twitter (2011, background): “We study both selfincriminating primary leaks and secondary leaks that reveal sensitive information about others, as well as the prevalence of leaks in status updates and conversation tweets.”